On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-06-28, geremy condra <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Edward A. Falk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In article <[email protected]>, >>> Stephen Hansen ?<me+list/[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such >>>>contexts. >>> >>> I was responding to the question "Also, do you use print *that* >>> much? Really?" ?The implication being that in the majority of useful >>> python programs, you don't really need to use print. >>> >>> My answer is yes, I use print in 100% of the scripts I write, including >>> the large useful ones. >>> >>> For this reason alone, python 3 is incompatible with python 2 (which >>> has already been acknowledged.) >>> >>> Until such time as 100% of the systems I might ever want to run my progams >>> on have python 3 installed, I cannot port my programs over from python 2. >> >> Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can >> do that without breaking on 2.x. > > I suppose so, for some values of "breaking". It can change the output: > > There is definitely a semantic difference between > > print "asdf", > > and > print ("asdf",)
I was actually referring to what stephen hansen pointed out, the from __future__ import print_function. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
